web01.fireside.fm Fri, 08 May 2026 00:02:53 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Catching Foxes - Episodes Tagged with “Christian” https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/tags/christian Fri, 24 Jul 2020 13:00:00 -0400 Luke and Gomer became friends Freshman year at the Franciscan University of Steubenville and 14 years later they started a podcast. The show oscillates between a conversation between just the two of us and interviews that we do together of other, fancier people. Sometimes we get explicit either by being too honest or by being too stupid. Either way, it's fun! en-us episodic Two guys talking about the collision of faith and culture. Discussion over Instruction. *Occasionally explicit. Luke and Gomer Luke and Gomer became friends Freshman year at the Franciscan University of Steubenville and 14 years later they started a podcast. The show oscillates between a conversation between just the two of us and interviews that we do together of other, fancier people. Sometimes we get explicit either by being too honest or by being too stupid. Either way, it's fun! yes Luke and Gomer mjgormley@gmail.com Gomer Finishes Harry Potter https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/253 d2c901d6-5abe-46db-9694-131ad79bf0d4 Fri, 24 Jul 2020 13:00:00 -0400 Luke and Gomer full Luke and Gomer I had no idea it could be like this. 1:31:18 yes <p><strong>Five things came together to help me understand the plot of the Harry Potter series:</strong></p> <ol> <li>Rebecca told me JK Rawlings was super smart and studied a lot about Medieval history.</li> <li>The playfulness of her Latin and her familiarity with it</li> <li>The quote from a few weeks ago about how our brains have so little in common with Medieval ways. of thinking, due in large part to the printing press</li> <li>My best friend persuading me not to read Harry Potter by sending me a photo of her tattoo</li> <li>Jordan Peterson's book on Jungian psychology, "Maps of Meaning". </li> </ol> <h3>1 COR 15</h3> <p>But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death...</p> <p>But some one will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies...</p> <p>There are celestial bodies and there are terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory...</p> <p>Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual which is first but the physical, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. I tell you this, brethren: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.</p> <h3>ROMANS 8</h3> <p>For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope; <strong>because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay</strong> and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, <strong>who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies</strong>. </p> <h3>GOMER'S THOUGHTS</h3> <p>Telos of a thoroughly moral universe where even matter was moral. Aristotle taught that the nature of a thing had an end, even inert matter, and matter's end was to become gold. All of nature, subject to futility in the eyes of Scripture, would eventually become the highest and most divine substance, which is gold. The Medieval Alchemist saw the Christian task to hurry this process of turning the perishable into the imperishable. Transmutation is the process: the alchemist's craft supplies skill in place of time, which is too slow. Aristotelian universe of Alchemy supplanted by Platonic rejection of <em>telos</em> and rise of Natural Sciences through the ultimate technology of Scientific Method. Even the paintings are serving ends and are moral agents, as everything has a moral signification. Thus, portkeys that muggles can't notice. Thus, the horcruxes that drive the plot of the last book.</p> <p><em>The union of opposites</em>- Harry and Voldemort, first book and the last book. This Stone was to give immortality and the Deathly Hallows are three objects meant to avoid death, two to defeat death and one to hide from death. Harry embraces death and thus had attained life. Voldemort ran from death, though he surrounded himself with it- murder to make horcruxes, Death Eaters, violence, etc. </p> <p>There is no technology in wizarding world. They do not get Muggle technology because they are Alchemists living in a <strong>pre-scientific world</strong>. This is the world of the Alchemist, not the chemist. They have candles, not electricity, which Muggles invented. They don’t get cars and radios and whatnot. Arthur Weasley is fascinated by Muggle technology but even he doesn’t really understand it, and his whole job in the Ministry of Magic is about the illegal use of muggle artifacts!</p> <p>Christ is the philosopher’s stone in medieval alchemy, redemption of matter, and even the body. This Christianization of the philosopher's stone develops it into both gold transmutation and also Elixir of Life, which preserves the physical body of the drinker. This is why there are two or three biblical citations in the last book. For instance, “And the last enemy to be defeated is death.” Which is found in a church cemetery on a gravestone as they hunt horcruxes. In Medieval alchemy, it is the stone which the builders rejected that has become the cornerstone. </p> Harry Potter, Christian, Magic, Death Five things came together to help me understand the plot of the Harry Potter series:

  1. Rebecca told me JK Rawlings was super smart and studied a lot about Medieval history.
  2. The playfulness of her Latin and her familiarity with it
  3. The quote from a few weeks ago about how our brains have so little in common with Medieval ways. of thinking, due in large part to the printing press
  4. My best friend persuading me not to read Harry Potter by sending me a photo of her tattoo
  5. Jordan Peterson's book on Jungian psychology, "Maps of Meaning".

1 COR 15

But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death...

But some one will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies...

There are celestial bodies and there are terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory...

Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual which is first but the physical, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. I tell you this, brethren: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

ROMANS 8

For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

GOMER'S THOUGHTS

Telos of a thoroughly moral universe where even matter was moral. Aristotle taught that the nature of a thing had an end, even inert matter, and matter's end was to become gold. All of nature, subject to futility in the eyes of Scripture, would eventually become the highest and most divine substance, which is gold. The Medieval Alchemist saw the Christian task to hurry this process of turning the perishable into the imperishable. Transmutation is the process: the alchemist's craft supplies skill in place of time, which is too slow. Aristotelian universe of Alchemy supplanted by Platonic rejection of telos and rise of Natural Sciences through the ultimate technology of Scientific Method. Even the paintings are serving ends and are moral agents, as everything has a moral signification. Thus, portkeys that muggles can't notice. Thus, the horcruxes that drive the plot of the last book.

The union of opposites- Harry and Voldemort, first book and the last book. This Stone was to give immortality and the Deathly Hallows are three objects meant to avoid death, two to defeat death and one to hide from death. Harry embraces death and thus had attained life. Voldemort ran from death, though he surrounded himself with it- murder to make horcruxes, Death Eaters, violence, etc.

There is no technology in wizarding world. They do not get Muggle technology because they are Alchemists living in a pre-scientific world. This is the world of the Alchemist, not the chemist. They have candles, not electricity, which Muggles invented. They don’t get cars and radios and whatnot. Arthur Weasley is fascinated by Muggle technology but even he doesn’t really understand it, and his whole job in the Ministry of Magic is about the illegal use of muggle artifacts!

Christ is the philosopher’s stone in medieval alchemy, redemption of matter, and even the body. This Christianization of the philosopher's stone develops it into both gold transmutation and also Elixir of Life, which preserves the physical body of the drinker. This is why there are two or three biblical citations in the last book. For instance, “And the last enemy to be defeated is death.” Which is found in a church cemetery on a gravestone as they hunt horcruxes. In Medieval alchemy, it is the stone which the builders rejected that has become the cornerstone.

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]]> Five things came together to help me understand the plot of the Harry Potter series:

  1. Rebecca told me JK Rawlings was super smart and studied a lot about Medieval history.
  2. The playfulness of her Latin and her familiarity with it
  3. The quote from a few weeks ago about how our brains have so little in common with Medieval ways. of thinking, due in large part to the printing press
  4. My best friend persuading me not to read Harry Potter by sending me a photo of her tattoo
  5. Jordan Peterson's book on Jungian psychology, "Maps of Meaning".

1 COR 15

But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death...

But some one will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies...

There are celestial bodies and there are terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory...

Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual which is first but the physical, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. I tell you this, brethren: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

ROMANS 8

For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

GOMER'S THOUGHTS

Telos of a thoroughly moral universe where even matter was moral. Aristotle taught that the nature of a thing had an end, even inert matter, and matter's end was to become gold. All of nature, subject to futility in the eyes of Scripture, would eventually become the highest and most divine substance, which is gold. The Medieval Alchemist saw the Christian task to hurry this process of turning the perishable into the imperishable. Transmutation is the process: the alchemist's craft supplies skill in place of time, which is too slow. Aristotelian universe of Alchemy supplanted by Platonic rejection of telos and rise of Natural Sciences through the ultimate technology of Scientific Method. Even the paintings are serving ends and are moral agents, as everything has a moral signification. Thus, portkeys that muggles can't notice. Thus, the horcruxes that drive the plot of the last book.

The union of opposites- Harry and Voldemort, first book and the last book. This Stone was to give immortality and the Deathly Hallows are three objects meant to avoid death, two to defeat death and one to hide from death. Harry embraces death and thus had attained life. Voldemort ran from death, though he surrounded himself with it- murder to make horcruxes, Death Eaters, violence, etc.

There is no technology in wizarding world. They do not get Muggle technology because they are Alchemists living in a pre-scientific world. This is the world of the Alchemist, not the chemist. They have candles, not electricity, which Muggles invented. They don’t get cars and radios and whatnot. Arthur Weasley is fascinated by Muggle technology but even he doesn’t really understand it, and his whole job in the Ministry of Magic is about the illegal use of muggle artifacts!

Christ is the philosopher’s stone in medieval alchemy, redemption of matter, and even the body. This Christianization of the philosopher's stone develops it into both gold transmutation and also Elixir of Life, which preserves the physical body of the drinker. This is why there are two or three biblical citations in the last book. For instance, “And the last enemy to be defeated is death.” Which is found in a church cemetery on a gravestone as they hunt horcruxes. In Medieval alchemy, it is the stone which the builders rejected that has become the cornerstone.

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]]> 20,000 Tangents and Attractive Moms https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/237 37e147e5-d823-4515-b480-99b079f16d92 Fri, 27 Mar 2020 06:00:00 -0400 Luke and Gomer full Luke and Gomer This one is for the true story-tellers out there. You know who I am talking about: those brave souls who are compelled to one-up each other, to interrupt and talk over each other, just to tell one slightly related story after another. Here's to you, Narcissist! 1:02:41 yes <p>What do you hope to have done when the quarantine is lifted? Then our Adult Attention Deficit Disorder kicks in and we tell 20,000 stories literally one right after the other.</p> <p>This one is for the true story-tellers out there. You know who I am talking about: those brave souls who are compelled to one-up each other, to interrupt and talk over each other, just to tell one slightly related story after another. Here's to you, Narcissist! </p> QUARANTINE, Catholic, Christian, Glory Days What do you hope to have done when the quarantine is lifted? Then our Adult Attention Deficit Disorder kicks in and we tell 20,000 stories literally one right after the other.

This one is for the true story-tellers out there. You know who I am talking about: those brave souls who are compelled to one-up each other, to interrupt and talk over each other, just to tell one slightly related story after another. Here's to you, Narcissist!

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This one is for the true story-tellers out there. You know who I am talking about: those brave souls who are compelled to one-up each other, to interrupt and talk over each other, just to tell one slightly related story after another. Here's to you, Narcissist!

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]]> Catching Foxes Holiday Accusation Special! https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/224 3a494b43-51c5-4b3c-953d-e615a79ab4ab Wed, 25 Dec 2019 13:00:00 -0500 Luke and Gomer full Luke and Gomer Over real fears of a lawsuit, we've made some edits... ALLEGEDLY! 39:26 yes <p>Watto was a greedy merchant, using deceit to enrich himself. This Christmas, may we all learn from Watto's poor example and not exploit people's dreams (or faith) to enrich ourselves.</p> <p>Unrelated... BECOME A PATRON AT PATREON.COM/CF! </p> greed, money, donations, scandal Watto was a greedy merchant, using deceit to enrich himself. This Christmas, may we all learn from Watto's poor example and not exploit people's dreams (or faith) to enrich ourselves.

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  • 10 Horrifying Facts About Watto From Star Wars | ReelRundown — But as annoying as the Gungan is, the film harbors an even more-infuriating alien: Watto, the chubby blue Toydarian junk shop owner from Tatooine. You might be wondering, "isn't Watto just a bit greedy? What makes him so bad?" Trust me, behind the scenes, Watto harbors more dark secrets than just a little penny-pinching. Don't believe me? These are the top ten horrendous facts about Watto!
  • The Five Most Racist Star Wars Characters - Weird Worm — That’s right, Watto is Jewish. And apparently, he’s also embraced Hasidism by the time of Attack of the Clones. Perhaps that’s why Jedi mind tricks, associated with Christianity in The Phantom Menace via Anakin’s virgin birth story, don’t work on him? He obviously doesn’t accept the Midichlorians as his personal lord and savior.
  • The Most Disturbing Moments Of The Star Wars Holiday Special - YouTube
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  • 10 Horrifying Facts About Watto From Star Wars | ReelRundown — But as annoying as the Gungan is, the film harbors an even more-infuriating alien: Watto, the chubby blue Toydarian junk shop owner from Tatooine. You might be wondering, "isn't Watto just a bit greedy? What makes him so bad?" Trust me, behind the scenes, Watto harbors more dark secrets than just a little penny-pinching. Don't believe me? These are the top ten horrendous facts about Watto!
  • The Five Most Racist Star Wars Characters - Weird Worm — That’s right, Watto is Jewish. And apparently, he’s also embraced Hasidism by the time of Attack of the Clones. Perhaps that’s why Jedi mind tricks, associated with Christianity in The Phantom Menace via Anakin’s virgin birth story, don’t work on him? He obviously doesn’t accept the Midichlorians as his personal lord and savior.
  • The Most Disturbing Moments Of The Star Wars Holiday Special - YouTube
]]> The Rise of Baby Yoda Strikes Again https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/223 6e2e26c5-b624-464e-8553-261b7485a9d5 Fri, 20 Dec 2019 06:00:00 -0500 Luke and Gomer full Luke and Gomer I have spoken! 1:00:20 yes <p>Gomer says the Mandalorian sucks. Luke tells Gomer he doesn't know how to think or feel correctly. Hilarity ensues. </p> the Mandalorian, Little Baby Yoda, Wado Gomer says the Mandalorian sucks. Luke tells Gomer he doesn't know how to think or feel correctly. Hilarity ensues.

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  • Nick Nolte's 'Mandalorian' character isn't a jerk -- he's brilliant. | Inverse — The Mandalorian tracks his first major bounty in Episode 1 to the desert planet of Arvala-7, and that’s where he encounters Kuiil shortly after landing. Kuiil interferes when the Mandalorian is attacked by some wild blurrgs and immediately offers to take Mando to the encampment where he can find his target. All he requests in return is one of the blurrg they fought together. When Kuiil claims that Mando will have to learn how to ride a blurrg to reach the location and the Mandalorian tries to argue, Kuiil counters with, “I have spoken.”
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  • Nick Nolte's 'Mandalorian' character isn't a jerk -- he's brilliant. | Inverse — The Mandalorian tracks his first major bounty in Episode 1 to the desert planet of Arvala-7, and that’s where he encounters Kuiil shortly after landing. Kuiil interferes when the Mandalorian is attacked by some wild blurrgs and immediately offers to take Mando to the encampment where he can find his target. All he requests in return is one of the blurrg they fought together. When Kuiil claims that Mando will have to learn how to ride a blurrg to reach the location and the Mandalorian tries to argue, Kuiil counters with, “I have spoken.”
]]> Whoopsies! (10-Minute Topics Return!) https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/199 955bcbdb-3a72-4d43-9c40-d276b52386fe Sat, 29 Jun 2019 10:00:00 -0400 Luke and Gomer full Luke and Gomer We almost kept them all to Ten Minutes. The Question of Scrupulosity, Communication after 10 years of Marriage, Dating Fast, Chernobyl show, and any new (non-FIRE) Podcasts, Catholics in the Public Square vs The Benedict Option, When is Justice Appeased in Identity Politics, Fr. Morris leaves the priesthood, and Punching McCarrick in the Face...? 1:44:57 no <p>*<em>We almost kept them all to Ten Minutes. *</em></p> <ul> <li>Luke: The Question of Scrupulosity</li> <li>Gomer Communication after 10 years of Marriage</li> <li>Joe: Dating Fast (how's your mom's car?)</li> <li>Betsy: Chernobyl show and any new (non-FIRE) Podcasts</li> <li>Mora: Catholics in the Public Square vs The Benedict Option</li> <li>When is Justice Appeased in Identity Politics</li> <li>Gomer: Fr. Morris leaves the priesthood</li> <li>Gomer: and is Puching McCarrick in the Face true justice?</li> </ul> <h3>LIVE SHOWS</h3> <p>Thank you, Alaska! We had a great time at The Heights and at Theresa's house! <br> Get ready, St Louis, 'cuz you next! (July 23rd).</p> Scruples, Scrupulosity, Fr Jonathan Morris, Identity Politics, Communication, Marriage *We almost kept them all to Ten Minutes. *

  • Luke: The Question of Scrupulosity
  • Gomer Communication after 10 years of Marriage
  • Joe: Dating Fast (how's your mom's car?)
  • Betsy: Chernobyl show and any new (non-FIRE) Podcasts
  • Mora: Catholics in the Public Square vs The Benedict Option
  • When is Justice Appeased in Identity Politics
  • Gomer: Fr. Morris leaves the priesthood
  • Gomer: and is Puching McCarrick in the Face true justice?

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  • For the Catholic Suffering from Scruples — Scrupulosity might look foolish or even funny to outsiders, but for people gripped in its claws, it's hellish. I mean that literally: it feels like we are locked away from God and His love. Scrupulosity is a coil of fear, doubt, guilt, and despair.
  • Ten Commandments for the Scrupulous — Below is a guide for folks who have this condition. It was written first by a Redemptorist priest, Father Don Miller, some thirty years ago, and has been amended by Father Thomas Santa. I hope it helps you if you're torturing yourself with thoughts rooted in scrupulosity.
  • About Scrupulous Anonymous - Scrupulous Anonymous — Since 1964, a very important part of the mission of the Redemptorists and Liguori Publications is ministering to those afflicted with scrupulosity, a religious form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). We do this by publishing Scrupulous Anonymous Newsletter. Some people may be troubled about past sins, others agonize about problems of obedience and purity, and many worry about sin where there is no sin. Their fear and anxiety prevent them from making decisions lest they be wrong ones.
  • Why I Wish Jonathan Morris Had Remained a Priest — Why I Wish Jonathan Morris Had Remained a Priest COMMENTARY: There are burdens, often undeserved, that accompany every path in life. The priesthood is no exception, and the burdens of our life are not without blessings.
  • Dealing with Scruples - Catholicism.org — “A scruple is then an exaggerated, unreasonable fear of sinning where there is in reality no sin. This groundless fear of sinning causes doubt and trouble of mind. The scrupulous person becomes a prey to continual fear of sin, past, present and future, in the most innocuous circumstances. He is afflicted with endless doubt and mental anguish, causing a confusion of his judgment with regard to what is lawful and what is forbidden, between what is trivial and what is serious. His morbid fear of doing wrong only obscures his judgment and multiplies his doubts, and these in turn increase his fear, so that he comes to take alarm from quite insignificant and unreasonable motives.”
  • Why Conservatives Struggle with Identity Politics | National Affairs — In this quasi-religious arena, innocent victims alone are hallowed; they alone receive what could be called "debt point" recognition. The rest — however much their legal, economic, or social status might indicate otherwise — have no legitimate voice. Indeed, their penance as transgressors is to listen to the innocents, and their lay responsibility in the liturgy of identity politics is to assent to the right of the innocents to tear down the civilizational temple their transgressors have built over the centuries — paid for, as it has been, not simply with money, but with the unearned suffering of the innocent scapegoats.
  • Dead Conservative Memes Can't Defeat the Identity Politics Clerisy - The American Mind — Today, whether at conservative conferences or in conservative think tanks, the listener even moderately attentive to the conversation will hear of the perils of progressivism and of cultural Marxism, of the need to defend family values, of the importance of being pro-life, of the importance of free markets, and of the threat of multiculturalism. These terms—indeed the constellation these terms form—emerged during the Reagan Presidency, more than three decades ago. If the 2016 Presidential election tells us anything, it is that this verbiage has hardened into nearly lifeless political rhetoric, sustained on life support through institutional buy-in and the assurances of political philosophers sympathetic to conservatism who tirelessly promote the link between the veritable ideas they study and the political vocabulary that has been in place for decades is timeless.
  • S2 E14: Bishop Barron: Catholicism and the Modern Age | Jordan Peterson — For Ep 14, we present Dr. Peterson’s highly anticipated conversation with Bishop Barron.
  • True Grit (2010) - IMDb — Storyline Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and surprises on the journey, and each has his or her "grit" tested.
  • The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation: Rod Dreher: 9780735213296: Amazon.com: Books — The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation Hardcover – March 14, 2017
  • Stop Misunderstanding the Benedict Option — I’ve heard so many people characterize the Benedict Option as: “We can’t just retreat, give up, or bury our heads in the sand.” Many people have equated the Benedict Option with disengagement and withdraw. Here is the real basis of the Benedict Option: Given the profound crisis of culture (which has affected the Church as well), we cannot look to mainstream institutions for our future. Rather, we need to form intentional communities that more fully embody our Christian faith and in which we are willing to face the consequences of going against the stream. It is from such institutions that real cultural change will occur. Thus, the Benedict Option is all about being active and engaging the problems of society. It recognizes, however, that solutions will begin locally, in the relationships that we can influence. Rebuilding will begin there. Do we really think that our political, educational, and economic institutions will provide a secure future for the practice of our Christian faith?
  • Benedict Option FAQ | The American Conservative
  • Luke on Twitter: "Lady liberty.… " — The Pose.
]]> *We almost kept them all to Ten Minutes. *

  • Luke: The Question of Scrupulosity
  • Gomer Communication after 10 years of Marriage
  • Joe: Dating Fast (how's your mom's car?)
  • Betsy: Chernobyl show and any new (non-FIRE) Podcasts
  • Mora: Catholics in the Public Square vs The Benedict Option
  • When is Justice Appeased in Identity Politics
  • Gomer: Fr. Morris leaves the priesthood
  • Gomer: and is Puching McCarrick in the Face true justice?

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Thank you, Alaska! We had a great time at The Heights and at Theresa's house!
Get ready, St Louis, 'cuz you next! (July 23rd).

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  • For the Catholic Suffering from Scruples — Scrupulosity might look foolish or even funny to outsiders, but for people gripped in its claws, it's hellish. I mean that literally: it feels like we are locked away from God and His love. Scrupulosity is a coil of fear, doubt, guilt, and despair.
  • Ten Commandments for the Scrupulous — Below is a guide for folks who have this condition. It was written first by a Redemptorist priest, Father Don Miller, some thirty years ago, and has been amended by Father Thomas Santa. I hope it helps you if you're torturing yourself with thoughts rooted in scrupulosity.
  • About Scrupulous Anonymous - Scrupulous Anonymous — Since 1964, a very important part of the mission of the Redemptorists and Liguori Publications is ministering to those afflicted with scrupulosity, a religious form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). We do this by publishing Scrupulous Anonymous Newsletter. Some people may be troubled about past sins, others agonize about problems of obedience and purity, and many worry about sin where there is no sin. Their fear and anxiety prevent them from making decisions lest they be wrong ones.
  • Why I Wish Jonathan Morris Had Remained a Priest — Why I Wish Jonathan Morris Had Remained a Priest COMMENTARY: There are burdens, often undeserved, that accompany every path in life. The priesthood is no exception, and the burdens of our life are not without blessings.
  • Dealing with Scruples - Catholicism.org — “A scruple is then an exaggerated, unreasonable fear of sinning where there is in reality no sin. This groundless fear of sinning causes doubt and trouble of mind. The scrupulous person becomes a prey to continual fear of sin, past, present and future, in the most innocuous circumstances. He is afflicted with endless doubt and mental anguish, causing a confusion of his judgment with regard to what is lawful and what is forbidden, between what is trivial and what is serious. His morbid fear of doing wrong only obscures his judgment and multiplies his doubts, and these in turn increase his fear, so that he comes to take alarm from quite insignificant and unreasonable motives.”
  • Why Conservatives Struggle with Identity Politics | National Affairs — In this quasi-religious arena, innocent victims alone are hallowed; they alone receive what could be called "debt point" recognition. The rest — however much their legal, economic, or social status might indicate otherwise — have no legitimate voice. Indeed, their penance as transgressors is to listen to the innocents, and their lay responsibility in the liturgy of identity politics is to assent to the right of the innocents to tear down the civilizational temple their transgressors have built over the centuries — paid for, as it has been, not simply with money, but with the unearned suffering of the innocent scapegoats.
  • Dead Conservative Memes Can't Defeat the Identity Politics Clerisy - The American Mind — Today, whether at conservative conferences or in conservative think tanks, the listener even moderately attentive to the conversation will hear of the perils of progressivism and of cultural Marxism, of the need to defend family values, of the importance of being pro-life, of the importance of free markets, and of the threat of multiculturalism. These terms—indeed the constellation these terms form—emerged during the Reagan Presidency, more than three decades ago. If the 2016 Presidential election tells us anything, it is that this verbiage has hardened into nearly lifeless political rhetoric, sustained on life support through institutional buy-in and the assurances of political philosophers sympathetic to conservatism who tirelessly promote the link between the veritable ideas they study and the political vocabulary that has been in place for decades is timeless.
  • S2 E14: Bishop Barron: Catholicism and the Modern Age | Jordan Peterson — For Ep 14, we present Dr. Peterson’s highly anticipated conversation with Bishop Barron.
  • True Grit (2010) - IMDb — Storyline Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and surprises on the journey, and each has his or her "grit" tested.
  • The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation: Rod Dreher: 9780735213296: Amazon.com: Books — The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation Hardcover – March 14, 2017
  • Stop Misunderstanding the Benedict Option — I’ve heard so many people characterize the Benedict Option as: “We can’t just retreat, give up, or bury our heads in the sand.” Many people have equated the Benedict Option with disengagement and withdraw. Here is the real basis of the Benedict Option: Given the profound crisis of culture (which has affected the Church as well), we cannot look to mainstream institutions for our future. Rather, we need to form intentional communities that more fully embody our Christian faith and in which we are willing to face the consequences of going against the stream. It is from such institutions that real cultural change will occur. Thus, the Benedict Option is all about being active and engaging the problems of society. It recognizes, however, that solutions will begin locally, in the relationships that we can influence. Rebuilding will begin there. Do we really think that our political, educational, and economic institutions will provide a secure future for the practice of our Christian faith?
  • Benedict Option FAQ | The American Conservative
  • Luke on Twitter: "Lady liberty.… " — The Pose.
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